Comment Re:Hell, Congress made me change mine this year! (Score 2, Interesting) 1691
This is no joke--I had this happen to me when I was hired recently. My situation is that my SS card only had part of my middle name and my surname on it and so that's what they used in the system (SAP, BTW--shudder), which, by the way, they use to identify everything associated to you, including paychecks! Explaining to the bank why you're cashing a check with a name on it that you haven't used since you were seven years old is no fun.
When I went down to the local SS office to get it changed, I told the girl changing my account my story and she said that she's been hearing that a lot lately...
Which makes me think: Wasn't the SS number sold by saying that it would NEVER be used as a form of identification (except to the SSA)? WTF happened between here and there, and why the hell hasn't there been more people screaming about this?
When I went down to the local SS office to get it changed, I told the girl changing my account my story and she said that she's been hearing that a lot lately...
Which makes me think: Wasn't the SS number sold by saying that it would NEVER be used as a form of identification (except to the SSA)? WTF happened between here and there, and why the hell hasn't there been more people screaming about this?
